Exchange 2007 Multiple Send Connector Cost Best Practice

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I am running exchange 2007 SP2 and have 2x exchange connectors set up with an equal default cost of 1.<o:p></o:p>
Connector 1 is set to * address space and should forward all emails to two email security/management servers<o:p></o:p>
Connector 2 is set to a internal sub domain server whose purpose is to file the emails on a CMS. Emails are marked for "filing" when
the Outlook plugin adds the connector 2's subdomain address into the bcc field.<o:p></o:p>
What I want to clarify is if I was to change the cost of Connector 1 to 0 would all mail then only be routed via this connector?<o:p></o:p>
I presume it would ignore the 2nd connector because the 1st connector's address space is * and thus no emails would route through connector
2 and therefore be filed to CMS ?<o:p></o:p>
What would the best practice be for the costs of each connector ??<o:p></o:p>
Thanks<o:p></o:p>
Mat<o:p></o:p>

I don't believe that 0 is a valid cost for a connector (I get an error if I try to see a connector with that). If you have two connectors, Exchange will send to the one that matches the address space most correctly. If you had no second connector,
connector 1 would attempt delivery to your CMS. Since you have that second connector, those messages will be delivered by it.
Connector costs are normally used when you have multiple connectors with the SAME address space, and allows Exchange to fail from one to another when the preferred is not operational for some reason. For example, if you have an ISDN line as your backup
Internet connection, you want to give connectors that use it a higher cost than your MPLS connections use.
I'll add that in most environments I've worked for the past several years, this redirection is handled at the network layer rather than the application layer.

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Exchange 2007 Smarthost send connector backing up

I have seen some similar posts to this but none have had any good answers.
We route all outbound mail through an Barracuda spam/virus appliance. We are a busy college campus with roughly 2k staff banging away at our mail gateways with mass mailings to our students, homework assignments, class schedules, blah blah blah..
At no time is our outbound mail queue empty. The trouble is, is that at any given time the most "Active" delivery status messages I see in queue viewer is 6 messages. Whether there are 30 or 5000 messages stuck in there it never try's to send
more than 6 at a time.
Sometimes the queue viewer shows no "Active" connections just all "Ready's". I never see the status change to "Retry" or anything else other than "Ready" or "Active".
We often have delivery delays of 3 or 4 hours when mass mailing messages that do not exceed more than 10 to 20k.
Here is what we've tried so far:
In Powershell use: get-transportserver | fl   (to view these)
and use: set-transportserver -ConfiguratorName (to change the values)
updated MaxConcurrentMailboxDeliveries to 50
updated MaxConcurrentMailboxSubmissions to 50
updated PickupDirectoryMaxMessagesPerMinute to 200
MaxConnectionRatePerMinute 1200
MaxOutboundConnections 1000
MaxPerDomainOutboundConnections 1000
"...MaxMessageAttachSize" 100MB (For testing only)
use: get-sendconnector | fl    to verify the value of "MaxMessageSize". Ours is set to unlimited.
use: get-transportconfig   to check all the "Max" settings in there particularly the MaxDumpsterSizePerStorageGroup setting. Ours is 125MB.
Protocol logging is set to Verbose on the send connector. There are no error messages in the send or connectivity logs. The "Microsoft MailFlow Troubleshooter" is a joke.
We have no throttling turned on at the Barracuda level, so says their tech support. I of course have no way of verifying this as I do not have access to it.
I guess my question is. Does anyone know how or where we can increase the number of "Active" messages in the queue to more than 6 messages?

On Thu, 16 May 2013 20:19:55 +0000, Elvis P. Johnson wrote:
>We route all outbound mail through an Barracuda spam/virus appliance. We are a busy college campus with roughly 2k staff banging away at our mail gateways with mass mailings to our students, homework assignments, class schedules, blah blah blah..
>
>
>
>At no time is our outbound mail queue empty. The trouble is, is that at any given time the most "Active" delivery status messages I see in queue viewer is 6 messages. Whether there are 30 or 5000 messages stuck in there it never try's to send more than
6 at a time.
You're sending all mail to a single smart host? I'd be looking at that
machine's configuration.
>Sometimes the queue viewer shows no "Active" connections just all "Ready's". I never see the status change to "Retry" or anything else other than "Ready" or "Active".
You have only one queue, for the smart host, right? Is there a "Last
error" value for it?
Are there any "back-pressure" events in the server's application event
log?
>We often have delivery delays of 3 or 4 hours when mass mailing messages that do not exceed more than 10 to 20k.
[ snip ]
>Protocol logging is set to Verbose on the send connector. There are no error messages in the send or connectivity logs. The "Microsoft MailFlow Troubleshooter" is a joke.
>
>We have no throttling turned on at the Barracuda level, so says their tech support. I of course have no way of verifying this as I do not have access to it.
The barracuda has DOS protection. I *think* the default is to limit
the number of "parrallel connections" to 5, but that may be different
on different models. There are probably other "rate limiting"
settings, too.
>I guess my question is. Does anyone know how or where we can increase the number of "Active" messages in the queue to more than 6 messages?
Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Exchange 2007 OWA sends attachments Outlook connector clients cannot send attachments.

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 + Rollup ***Problem with sending email attachments from Outlook 2007***
* Inbound mail arrives in OWA and Outlook normally with and without attachments.
* OWA email to external email account with attachment goes thru successfully.
* Outlook 2007 sends to an external email address with attachments the message does not arrive at the external mailbox. The messages leave Outbox but are never delivered. The messages appear in Sent Items also.
* Outlook sends non attachment emails to external addresses successfully.
* Outlook sends email attachments to local domain accounts fine.
#1 Exchange Server on Server 2013 fully patched problem commences. Exchange Server on version less than first RTM release of Exchange 2007.
#2 Outlook profiles were changed to see if that is the problem.
#3 Upgraded Exchange to SP1 and Rollup 10(Rollup was autodownloaded by MSUpdate)
#4 Ran EXBPA nothing of any interest in the report.
--Unified Messaging not configed (Done nothing)
--SenderID (Re-enabled) I had shut all of the antispam to eliminate these.
-- Junk Store threshold not configed (No change)
Any suggestions to get Outlook clients capable of sending attachments configured.
Thx,
-Scot

Hi Scot,
Providing some information on Poison Queue:
The poison message queue is a special queue that's used to isolate messages that are determined to be harmful to the Exchange system after a transport server or service failure.
The messages may be genuinely harmful in their content and format.
Alternatively, they may be the results of a poorly written agent that has caused the Exchange server to fail when it processed the supposedly bad messages.
The poison message queue is typically empty. If the poison message queue contains no messages it doesn't appear in Queue Viewer or
Get-Queue results. The messages in the poison message queue are never automatically resumed or expired. Messages remain in the poison message queue until they're manually resumed or removed by an administrator.
According to the description above, I suspect Outlook 2007 changed the email's format when send email with attachment. The reason as below:
If the original email's (with attachment) content or format is harmful to the Exchange 2007 server, it will go to the Poison Queue when sending via OWA. However it didn't, sending via OWA is perfect. So I suspect it is an issue on the Outlook 2007
client side.
Please using Pipeline Tracing to verify whether there is something changed during transmission.
More details in the following article:
Using Pipeline Tracing to Diagnose Transport Agent Problems
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125198(v=exchg.80).aspx
If it is convenient, I suggest doing following tests to narrow down this issue:
Note: Same content, same attachment, same format.
1. Please using Outlook 2010/2013 or others' Outlook clients for testing.
2. Please change to another format for testing. More details in the following article:
Change the message format to HTML, Rich Text, or plain text
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/outlook-help/change-the-message-format-to-html-rich-text-or-plain-text-HP001232996.aspx
Thanks
Mavis
Mavis Huang
TechNet Community Support

Single Template support multiple formats of data - Best practice

I have a requirement to create Invoices in a single PDF file.
The invoices would belong to different categories - DebitNotes, CreditNotes, Invoices with single product,
invoices with multiple product etc.. each will have a different format.
I initially thought the right way to create a single pdf is to use a
single Template, with different formats of invoice seperated by conditional formatting.
The see from reading the blogs that the other way is to create sub-template
(one each for credit, invoice, Debits etc) and plug it into the
main template.
I would like to know what is the best practice that is followed in the above case.
If I were to use sub-templates how would I make it possible to view the invoice stub only on the first page.
Since the data from the sub-template would go to multiple pages.
Is adding the stub data to the footer the only option. Please can someone share with me an example
template.
Thanks
Shandrila

Shandrila
If the various document types are of a single XML format ie the same structure with just document type differences and the layout format is the same just the data different or very minimal changes that can be handled with conditional formatting then I think it would be OK to have a single report for all document types.
If the data structures are very different and the layout requirements are different then I would create separate reports for each document type. If the data structure is teh same but the document type layouts are different then go for separate layout formats.
Going down the sub template path can be a little difficult, you might end up with a very complex set of templates that are almost as much of a pain to manage as the original report you are trying to replace.
Here's the best scenario IMHO ...
1 data extract, parameterized to pull invoice, CM, etc data based on the user request
Multiple layout templates, 1 for each document type. If you have common layout sections across the layouts e.g address blocks then break them out as sub template components that all of the layouts can access and share.
Multiple report definitions, sharing the data extract with a single layout template associated with them
cheers
Tim

Exchange 2007 wont send to AOL and a few other domains

Have tried everything. We switched from Time Warner Cable, to AT&T firber optic, and now we cant send email to AOL, and a few other domains. rDNS is setup correctly, and still no go. Any help would be good.

Hi,
How about the internal communication?
Agree with both MAS and Rich, detailed errors will be helpful for the further troubleshooting.
Please use mxtoolbox to check blacklist.
Please check the Send Connector settings.
Thanks
Mavis Huang
TechNet Community Support

Parsing across multiple namespaces... best practice?

Howdy all, here's my situation:
I am attempting to create a simple interface to a particular type of webdav server which has some unusual XML data coming back, and need some advice on the best way to parse this XML.
I have a generic "query" object which consists of a set of "Fields", a "Scope" and a set of "Constraints". This query is ultimately formed as an XML request sent to the WebDAV server. The response is also a generic "ResultSet" response, which consists of "Rows". Each Row consists of "Fields" (the same type as in the query). A Field is basically a key/value pair (all Strings), and a namespace which describes the location of the field within the WebDAV server. (obviously modelled on a JDBC-style interaction)
I need to build a generic parser which can create a ResultSet from a raw XML document.
For Example:
Given a "query" with the following fields:
FIELD 1
namespace: urn:schemas:httpmail
name:fromemail
FIELD 2
namespace: DAV
name: id
The query will basically say (pseudo SQL)
"select "urn:schemas:httpmail:fromemail", "DAV:id" from <scope> where <constraints>"
This will return an XML document something like this:
<a:multistatus
      xmlns:a="DAV:"
      xmlns:b="urn:uuid:c2f41010-65b3-11d1-a29f-00aa00c14882/"
      xmlns:c="xml:"
      xmlns:d="urn:schemas:httpmail:"
      xmlns:e="urn:schemas:mailheader:">
   <a:response>
      <a:href>
            http://blah.blah.com/someurl
      </a:href>
      <a:propstat>
         <a:status>
               HTTP/1.1 200 OK
         </a:status>
         <a:prop>
            <d:fromemail>
                 [email protected]
            </d:fromemail>
            <a:id>
                  AQsAAAAARgAgCwAAAABGeAIAAAAA
            </a:id>
         </a:prop>
      </a:propstat>
   </a:response>
   <a:response>
   </a:response>
</a:multistatus>
So.. I then need to create a ResultSet object, which looks like this:
ResultSet<Object>
|---Rows<Collection>
    |---Row<Object>
        |---Field<Object>
            |---name: fromemail
            |---namespace: urn:schemas:httpmail
            |---value: [email protected]
        |---Field<Object>
            |---name: id
            |---namespace: DAV
            |---value: AQsAAAAARgAgCwAAAABGeAIAAAAA
    |---Row<Object>
            ....As you can see, I need BOTH the value, and the original data relating to the namespace and field name in the java object returned.
Problems I am having:
1. Parsing multiple namespaces. The path to multistatus/response/prop/fromemail (for example) spans two namespaces, hence can't use Commons Digester
2. Including XML element names as values in the returned object. I need/want to be able to store the XML element name (eg "fromemail") as a value in the java object returned.
I'm looking for thoughts as to the best way to deal with this... XPath?, DOM/SAX? etc
Any help you can provide.
Cheers

Howdy all, here's my situation:
I am attempting to create a simple interface to a particular type of webdav server which has some unusual XML data coming back, and need some advice on the best way to parse this XML.
I have a generic "query" object which consists of a set of "Fields", a "Scope" and a set of "Constraints". This query is ultimately formed as an XML request sent to the WebDAV server. The response is also a generic "ResultSet" response, which consists of "Rows". Each Row consists of "Fields" (the same type as in the query). A Field is basically a key/value pair (all Strings), and a namespace which describes the location of the field within the WebDAV server. (obviously modelled on a JDBC-style interaction)
I need to build a generic parser which can create a ResultSet from a raw XML document.
For Example:
Given a "query" with the following fields:
FIELD 1
namespace: urn:schemas:httpmail
name:fromemail
FIELD 2
namespace: DAV
name: id
The query will basically say (pseudo SQL)
"select "urn:schemas:httpmail:fromemail", "DAV:id" from <scope> where <constraints>"
This will return an XML document something like this:
<a:multistatus
      xmlns:a="DAV:"
      xmlns:b="urn:uuid:c2f41010-65b3-11d1-a29f-00aa00c14882/"
      xmlns:c="xml:"
      xmlns:d="urn:schemas:httpmail:"
      xmlns:e="urn:schemas:mailheader:">
   <a:response>
      <a:href>
            http://blah.blah.com/someurl
      </a:href>
      <a:propstat>
         <a:status>
               HTTP/1.1 200 OK
         </a:status>
         <a:prop>
            <d:fromemail>
                 [email protected]
            </d:fromemail>
            <a:id>
                  AQsAAAAARgAgCwAAAABGeAIAAAAA
            </a:id>
         </a:prop>
      </a:propstat>
   </a:response>
   <a:response>
   </a:response>
</a:multistatus>
So.. I then need to create a ResultSet object, which looks like this:
ResultSet<Object>
|---Rows<Collection>
    |---Row<Object>
        |---Field<Object>
            |---name: fromemail
            |---namespace: urn:schemas:httpmail
            |---value: [email protected]
        |---Field<Object>
            |---name: id
            |---namespace: DAV
            |---value: AQsAAAAARgAgCwAAAABGeAIAAAAA
    |---Row<Object>
            ....As you can see, I need BOTH the value, and the original data relating to the namespace and field name in the java object returned.
Problems I am having:
1. Parsing multiple namespaces. The path to multistatus/response/prop/fromemail (for example) spans two namespaces, hence can't use Commons Digester
2. Including XML element names as values in the returned object. I need/want to be able to store the XML element name (eg "fromemail") as a value in the java object returned.
I'm looking for thoughts as to the best way to deal with this... XPath?, DOM/SAX? etc
Any help you can provide.
Cheers

Converting Physical Exchange Server into virtual environment (P2V) – Best Practices & Tips from the field (Guide)

Hi, I wrote a 10-pages guide regarding Exchange P2V process which I performs often at organiziations.
I would like to hear your opinion about this guide, if you have additional information - feel free to contact me at netanel [at] ben-shushan [dot] net.
Here's the link to the P2V guide:
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/files/folders/898538/download.aspx
Netanel Ben-Shushan, MCSA/E, MCTS, MCITP, Windows Expert-IT Pro MVP. IT Consultant & Trainer | Website (Hebrew): http://www.ben-shushan.net | IT Services: http://www.ben-shushan.net/services | Weblog (Hebrew): http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/netanelb
| E-mail: [email protected]

Hi Netanel, thank your for the useful guidelines.
Do you have a similar guide for a Exchange 2010 P2V process? Or the basic guidelines would be generally the same?
Best regards
LJ

Exchange 2007 when sending a calendar invite, a non-existent delegate shows up in an undeliverable message

I had a test user that was removed. When it was removed, it was still listed as a delegate on someone's email. Now, whenever a Calendar invite is sent to the existing user, the sender receives an undeliverable message. The existing user does not receive
notification of a calendar event, but the event does show up in the calendar.

Hi,
If the delegate user account or mailbox has been removed from domain or Exchange server, please also remove the delegate settings with this account.
If a user is set as a delegate for a manager, the meeting request which is send to the Manager would be forwarded to the delegate automatically and ask for approving in the delegate side.
Please do the following steps in the Manager’s Outlook client to remove the delegate settings for this non-existent delegate:
1. Open the Manager’s Outlook.
2. Click File > Account Settings > Delegate Access.
3. In the Delegate list, click the non-existent delegate, click Remove.
4. Click OK to save the settings.
Then check whether the issue persists.
Regards,
Winnie Liang
TechNet Community Support

CF Standard, MS Exchange and SQL on one computer - best practices?

After attending Ryan Favro's session on vmware, I realized my
one box should function to it's full capacity (it's a dual physical
processor Supermicro/AMD Opteron w/ 8 hotswap Raptors, expandable
to a quad 2.6Ghz/8Gb RAM).
I had planned on running CF Standard (bought it), SQL
Express, and in fact all of my development stuff (Flex/Photoshop
CS2, which I also bought)) on this box, but that idea blew up when
I realized my PNY Quadro wouldn't run under Server 2003SBS (which,
you guess it, I also bought LOL). So, I've stripped out the
GUI-stuff - it's just going to be a server (web/email and database)
now. Webserver for my own sites, so no reason to spend money I
don't have on Enterprise CF. I will probably run a bunch of stuff
for friends under my domain in folders, i.e.,
faceitphoto.ca/mystuff, faceitphoto.ca/friend1stuff,
faceitphoto.ca/friend3 stuff...not more advanced than that. They
can forward/cloak however they see fit at their expense.
I see SQL Is available in a version that offers web services
- is that valid to me at all? Or am I good with just the MS SQL
Express?
Is MS Exchange going to function fine as the email server in
CF, i.e., can I point it as the source in Administrator? I have the
MX entry or whatever it's called from my ISP for faceitphoto.ca
pointed to my static IP.
Most importantly, as per the title, how would you recommend
setting this up? Should I buy XP Pro and run SQL under it, and CF
under my Server 2003 with the mailserver (Exchange) running in the
same environment? Is vmware the answer here?
Any other suggestions? I'm pretty much out of money after the
laptop comes...
And yes, I'm a bit out of my league here, so I will take the
recommendations to someone who knows what they are doing. I want
the OS/Apps drives all Ghosted when it's done (running, configured,
current updates applied). This isn't for a business (yet), so
please keep your $$$ recommendations with that in mind...but I am
very serious about trying to buildng something I COULD turn into a
small business down the road, i.e., I like to build photo galleries
and have 'informal' expectations at work to maybe cobble together a
dashboard with CF/SQL/Flex2/FDS2, and a few mgmt/reporting areas
(they'd run it from there, this would be a development
environment). Who knows from there...
Shawn

hi
"I see SQL Is available in a version that offers web services
- is that valid to me at all? Or am I good with just the MS SQL
Express?"
>Sql express is just fine for start, if you are not happy
stripped sql you can allways start to use other version and import
db's there.
"Is MS Exchange going to function fine as the email server in
CF, i.e., can I point it as the source in Administrator? I have the
MX entry or whatever it's called from my ISP for faceitphoto.ca
pointed to my static IP."
>yes you can. you can still use your isp mailserver if you
dont want to use/maintain exchange.
"Most importantly, as per the title, how would you recommend
setting this up? Should I buy XP Pro and run SQL under it, and CF
under my Server 2003 with the mailserver (Exchange) running in the
same environment? Is vmware the answer here?"
>same enviroment is fine. you can spend $ to dedicated sql
box but why?
you can use wmvare too, it up to yours how you want to
maintain you dev/prod enviroment.
"I want the OS/Apps drives all Ghosted when it's done
(running, configured, current updates applied)."
>set some raid to your disks like 2 system disks and rest
for data and/or apps.
wmvare and you can have easy machine images, it make life
easy when troubles come..
if you do not select wmvare you can use symantec ghost
software to create images
select some backup software and maybe external hd (network
capable) where you do your daily backups
and firewall to protect your stuff!
cheers
kim

Receive Connector stopped working after Update Rollout 2 for Exchange 2007 SP2

One of the Exchange 2007 servers receive connector has stopped working since installing the latest rollout update for Exchange 2007 SP2 - for some reason the following error is received (when troubleshooting on the adjacent server) :
"Remote server server.domain.co.uk failed the mail acceptance test. MAIL FROM command: Respond = 530 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated."
Most admins will know you usually get this when first setting up Exchange and the receive connector not allowing anonymous connections. But our setup has been working for well over a year with no problems. Even enabling anonymous connections still doesn't fix the problem.
Our setup is 2 exchange servers across 2 sites, with the problematic server never receiving email from the internet, only from the other Exchange server (which is internet facing). The above error is received when the internet facing server is relaying email over to the problematic server. Though in the message queue the following error is received:
"SMTPSEND.DNS.NonExistantDomain; nonecistant domain"
After testing DNS that all seems fine, so I don't believe it's a DNS problem.
Any ideas why this would happen?
Thanks,
Matt

Hi Matt....
To receive e-mails from the external servers or domains or clients, you can setup a new receive connector on Hub Transport Server. To do this task, you can go through the steps mentioned in this blog....
https://mailsolutions.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/resolving-error-530-5-7-1-client-was-not-authenticated-with-receiver-connector/
Hope this will work
Thanks

Send connectors question

Hi There,
we have the 2 Ad sites and each site has the exchange server 2010 sp2 (HUB.MDB,UM and CAS). i want to route the messages based on Sites via each separate send connector. I would like to know send connectors use exchange cost routing to route the messages
Many thanks
David

Under the send connector properties, scope it and then set the smarthost on each send connector to what you want. I assume that is what you are referring to.
Note that there is *no* native source based routing in 2010.
If you need source-based routing:
If you want to use sender based routing in Exchange 2010, use an agent:
http://routingruleagent.codeplex.com/
or 3rd party software:
http://ivasoft.com/routebysender.shtml
http://grahamhosking.blogspot.com/2011/05/exchange-2007-2010-sender-based-routing.html
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997285(v=exchg.141).aspx
Scoped send connector By default, all Send connectors that you create can be used by all the Hub Transport servers in your Exchange organization. However, you can limit the scope of any Send connector so that it can be used only by other
Hub Transport servers that exist in the same Active Directory site. To limit the scope of this Send connector, select
Scoped send connector.
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ActiveSync stops working after migrating from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013

We have started the migration from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013. We've followed best practices and everything is working great except ActiveSync. I've performed Exchange migrations in the past so this is nothing new for me. I've also been referring to
a great guide which has been a big help,
http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2013/migration-deployment/planning-and-migrating-small-organization-exchange-2007-2013-part1.html.
Once a user is migrated from Exchange 2007 to 2013, ActiveSync stops working properly. Email can be pulled to the device (Nokia Lumia 625 running Windows Phone 8) by performing a manual sync. But DirectPush is not working. The strange part is it's not affecting
everyone who's been migrated. Anyone who is still on Exchange 2007 is not affected.
At first I thought it was our wildcard certificate. 99% of our users are running Outlook 2013 on Windows 7 or higher but we do have a few terminal servers still running Outlook 2010. Outlook 2010 was giving us certificate errors. I realized it was the wildcard
certificate. Rather than making changes to the OutlookProvider I simply obtained a new SAN certificate. Although that resolved the issues for Outlook 2010 users, ActiveSync was still a problem.
Rebooting the phones and removing the email account from the user's device and re-adding it didn't resolve the issue either.
Then I performed an iisreset on the CAS server. This didn't help either. I didn't know it at the time, but I was getting closer...
I tried using the cmdlet Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity but it gave me the following error:
WARNING: Test user 'extest_0d9a45b025374' isn't accessible, so this cmdlet won't be able to test Client Access server
connectivity.
Could not find or sign in with user DOMAIN.com\extest_0d9a45b025374. If this task is being run without
credentials, sign in as a Domain Administrator, and then run Scripts\new-TestCasConnectivityUser.ps1 to verify that
the user exists on Mailbox server EX02.DOMAIN.COM
I started reviewing how Exchange 2013 proxied information from the CAS to the mailbox server and realized the issue may in fact be on the mailbox server.
I performed an iisreset on the mailbox server and all of a sudden ActiveSync started working again. Awesome!
I can't explain why. The only thing I can assume is when some users were migrated from 2007 to 2013 something wasn't being triggered on the Exchange 2013 side. Resetting IIS resolved the issue. I guess I'll have to do an IIS reset after I perform a batch
of migrations. Disabling ActiveSync and re-enabling it for the affected users didn't help - only the IISRESET resolved the issue.
If anyone has any information as to why this happens, please chime in. Also, if anyone knows why I can't run the Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity cmdlet, I'd appreciate the help.
Thanks.

Hi,
In Exchange 2013, the Public Folder is changed to Public Folder mailbox instead of Public Folder in Exchange 2007 database.
Due to the changes in how public folders are stored, legacy Exchange mailboxes are unable to access the public folder hierarchy on Exchange 2013 servers. However, user mailboxes on Exchange 2013 servers or Exchange Online can connect to legacy
public folders. Exchange 2013 public folders and legacy public folders can’t exist in your Exchange organization simultaneously. This effectively means that
there’s no coexistence between versions.
For this reason, it’s recommended that prior to migrating your public folders, you should
first migrate your all legacy mailboxes to Exchange 2013. For more information about migrating public folder from previous versions, please refer to:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj150486(v=exchg.150).aspx
(Please note the What do you need to know before you begin part in this link)
Regards,
Winnie Liang
TechNet Community Support

Best Practices to do software Patching and Software Deployment for bigger environment like 300 K computers

Hi Friends,
i am looking for low level suggestions and a ppt/document etc too , The client base is 300 k users and spread globally ( major in three different regions), the requirement is
1) methodology to do software patching, can we patch all in one go or do we have to divide as per region etc
2) How many clients can be targeted for software patching in one go ( ex : can we target 20K clients in one go ?), i know there are other factors too will play key role here like band width etc , but i am looking answers out of real time experience
3) What Methodology to follow when it comes to critical/emergency updates ?
Regards
Tanoj
OSLM ENGINEER - SCCM 2007 & 2012

There is no single best practice to patching, if there were then SCCM would ship preconfigured :). As an example, Microsoft internally patches 300,000 workstations with 98% success in about a week according to their own podcast:
Microsoft Podcast
That said, I do follow a few rules when building a patching plan for a client. Maybe you'll find it helpful:
Always use a "soak tier". I forget where I first heard the term, but the idea is to have a good cross section of users get patches one or more weeks before your general deployment. This will help identify potential issues with a patch
before it hits general release. Make sure said group is NOT just the IT department ... we make the worst guinea pigs (we aren't known for closing out end of the month billing or posting legal documents).
When it comes to workstations, avoid needlessly phased deployment. 99% of the time, using local time zones is enough of a phased deployment. Unlike servers with very particular boot and patching orders, workstations can simply be patched. You
have enough collections in your environment ... so any new collection for patching should be justified.
Keep your ADR count down. It's tempting to build a new ADR for everything (workstations, general servers, exchange servers, etc.). Problem is that best practice also has you building a new SUG every time each ADR runs ... so you end up getting
flooded with update groups and that much more maintenance. When possible simply use maintenance windows to break up patching schedules instead of using mostly duplicate ADRs that simply have separate start dates.
Use Orchastrator. To me Orchastrator is to Software Updates what MDT is to Operating System Deployments: effectively mandatory. Even if you don't have complicated cluster updates you need to automate with SCO integrated to SCCM (there
are great examples on the web if you do), you can at the very least create run-books to manage that monthly maintenance you otherwise have to handle manually in SCCM (which is a lot IMO). I have monthly run-books that delete expired updates from SUGs,
consoldate SUGs older than 6 months unto a single annual group, and even create new update packages (and update all ADRs to use them) every 6 months to keep a single repository from getting too large.
I'm sure others out there can give you more advice ... but that's my two cents.

Exchange 2007 to 2013

hello
i am trying to migrate exchange 2007 to exchange 2013 but what a bout spam filtring feature which installed in hub and cas server
how can i enabled in exchange 2013 and copy all configuration
what a bout accepted domain how can i migrate it ?
Receive connectors ? how can i migrate it?
MCP MCSA MCSE MCT MCTS CCNA

I see a lot of confusion here - both in the way the questions are asked, and in the incorrect and misleading answers.
The anti-spam feature in Exchange 2013 is performed by the Connection Filtering agent. It is not available in the Exchange 203 CAS or MBX roles. Exchange 2013 SP1 re-introduced the EDGE server role (about a year and a half after the RTM) and the
missing connection filtering agent (the anti-spam feature or module as DareDevil says).
Hence, you have the following options:
1. Install and configure an Exchange 2013 EDGE server.
2. Install a 3rd party Anti-Spam product.
3. Use the Anti-Spam services of an external company - all inbound e-mail should go through the servers of this company.
4. Install and use a linux server in the DMZ for the Anti-Spam filtering (that works amazingly well, and you'll be surprised how many companies are using this option).
As a matter of fact, Yasser, you've asked four questions, not just one. The accepted domains, that are already configured in you existing Exchange 2007 organization, are configured automatically on the Exchange 2013 servers - you don't have to perform this
task manually.
Depending on your deployment - [CAS+MBX] or separate [CAS] and [MBX] servers, you'll have the minimum required receive connectors configured as well. If you have custom receive connectors, you'll have to re-create them manually. The same way, if you
have custom transport rules,you'll have to export/import them manually as well.
You'll have to create manually the Exchange 2013 Internet send connector(s) or add the Exchange 2013 CAS to the existing one(s).
By default, the Anti-Malware feature is enabled when you install Exchange 2013, but if you are planning to use a third party product, you can disable it.
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Exhcnage 2010 send connector

our exchange 2010 smtp send connector shows we are sending an smtp request to an unwanted address every 10 minutes. How does one determine with the session number listed who/what is initiating that request?

Hi,
SMTP logging is disabled on Exchange server 2010 by default. I recommend you use the following cmdlet to enable protocol logging for the Send connector.
Set-SendConnector "xxx" -ProtocolLoggingLevel Verbose
For more information, here is an article for your reference.
Understanding Protocol Logging
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997624(v=exchg.141).aspx
Hope it helps.
Best regards,
Amy Wang
TechNet Community Support

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